Balakleya munitions depot disaster Ukraine SITREP

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On the night of March 23, a fire broke out on the territory of the military munitions depot of the Ministry of Defense, which is located near the city of Balakleya, Kharkov region, which led to the detonation of ammunition. The explosions are still ongoing. An entire area has been evacuated, involving from 20,000 to 45,000 people.

President Poroshenko has announced on his Twitter that he ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Ministry of Defense and Emergency Department to invite NATO to deal with the aftermath of this disaster, or how he phrased it to do “humanitarian demining.”

We all know that NATO has no capability to deal with the environmental and humanitarian disasters. So, the true reason why they blew up this depot was to invite NATO troops to position them in Donbass region.

Clearly, the junta refuses to leave and now is trying openly, not covertly, to use the foreign troops to keep the population under the control.

Ukraine Munitions Depot drone footage March 23, 2017

“Mama, I am writing you from a burning tank…”

Ukro experts are doing their best to explain an unexplainable. What had happened at the 65th Arsenal of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine?

They came up with two major theories of what had caused this fire: Russian drone dropped a bomb, and Russian military satellite used a powerful laser beam to blow up the depot from space .

Regional correspondent for the “Emergency news” Vyacheslav Mavrichev, informing at his Facebook account about what was going on within this 50 km zone, reported that he talked to several military servicemen; they told him about a “well-organized” simultaneous ignition at several locations of this 700 square hectare warehouse.

Troops are being positioned around perimeter of the 7-kilometer security zone. This zone might be expended, though. There are reports of drones flying over the zone.

The following images are of the 65th Arsenal

Map of the towns of Balakleya (bottom), the munition depot (top), town Verbovka (right top) and Pobeda (right bottom)

“Ukrtransgaz has decided to shut down a pipeline running near the town of Balakliya in Kharkov Region where an arms depot blasted early in the morning. Most probably, it is about the biggest route of the Russian gas transit to Europe via Ukraine.

Ukrtransgaz has put its emergency units on high alert and started switching gas flows to other routes. The distance from the pipeline to the arms depot is 4 km, while the safety zone is behind 5 km, spokesman for the company Maxim Belyavsky wrote in his Facebook account.

He did not specify what pipeline he meant, but according to the map of the Ukrainian gas transporting system, two transit main gas pipelines are laid near Balakliya. One of them is in a four-kilometer distance from the exploding depot. It is a main from the Russian Valuyki gas metering station. According to Ukrtransgaz, on March 21, about 21 mn c m of gas was pumped through this station from Russia to Europe, which is 10 percent of the total daily transit.”

People have been running for their lives, fleeing the affected area on foot and using their personal means of transportation, carrying with them their children, IDs and cats, and nothing much else.

There aren’t any people that would come to help for free. There aren’t any government issued transportation, like buses. There is no military around to assist. People are arriving from unaffected regions and charge the victims high fees for everything, food, water and rides.

According to the first deputy of the Kharkov mayor Igor Terekhov, people who left their place of permanent residence in Balakley and the nearest villages can be accommodated in a temporally housing like tents for 70 people, in addition they can offer some “modular housing” for 40 people.

In the Kharkov City Center for the Reintegration of Homeless Citizens, they are ready to accept 10 men and 10 women.

In Kharkov city center of complex rehabilitation of persons with disabilities “Promin” can temporarily accommodate 3 families of 4 people.

KP Kharkivvodokanal is also ready to provide seats for 400 people in the children’s recreation camps Fakel and Romashka (Vasishchevo settlement), at the recreation center Aqua (Old Saltov village, Volchansk district).

In case of shortage of places for evacuees, another 400 people are ready to place in the barracks of Kharkov University Air Force named after Ivan Kozhedub

We can see that out of 45,000 people that assumed to be evacuated, the authorities have placement for 900.

On the videos you can see white objects flying around. Those are shells and missiles. Falling on the villages and small towns around, they cause fires and explosions.

Kiev regime media is not reporting anything, but according to the locals:

Balaklavsky dairy production plant had been blown up, causing leaks of chlorine and ammonia;

An electric power station in town Neftyanik has been blown up;

Houses in village Verbovka are on fire;

Railroad station Balakleya is under shelling, with the entire 110 town district;

Shells even reach a small town Lager (Camp);

The authorities left people to get out on their own. There is no evacuation efforts. People just were told to flee with no assistance from the junta and local authorities.

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Meanwhile, on the South-East direction (i.e. on the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation), state border guards introduced enhanced border control. In particular, by the departments of the Regional administration and the Department of Reserves increased density of border control servicemen outside the official checkpoints, the adjusted cooperation with the Armed forces of Ukraine, security service of Ukraine, state service for emergency situations, the National police and the National guard.

According to the Interior Ministry of Ukraine at the present time the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian border outside Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy and Luhansk regions fully controlled. All checkpoints operate normally.

A spokesman for the people’s militias in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, Andrei Marochko, said the Kiev forces may have blown up the depot to cover up the mass shortage of munitions there.

Scott Humor

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-blast-idUSKBN16U0N8
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The base, which held about 138,000 tonnes of ammunition, is located in the city of Balaklia, about 100 km (60 miles) from the frontline of Ukraine’s war against Russian-backed separatists.
The warehouse was guarded by around 1,000 people, some of whom heard the sound of an aircraft just before the explosions.

Military spokesman Oleksander Motuzyanyk said security around other bases was being beefed up. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman was due to fly to the area.

A third of the base is still burning and the airspace above it was closed off, Poltorak said, adding that the attack would not significantly affect Ukraine’s military capacity.
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No, those were Ukrainian fascists munitions.The Junta claims it was sabotage,but who knows. The Ukrainian “forces” are notorious for their accidents. So it could very well be another accident .Which the Junta will blame on the LDPR or on Russia.

Thanks Scott,I knew it was in Kharkov. Which is sometimes included in the Donbas region and has a large pro-Russian population. But usually only Donetsk,Lugansk,and also sometimes the eastern areas of Dnipropetrovsk and some areas of South West Russia are considered as part of the “Donbas”. Today,in the current situation only Donetsk and Lugansk are talked of as Donbas. Though as one of the 8 Oblasts included in the region of the Southeast or Novorossia. Kharkov is an important area. But the point of my post was that I was happy for the destruction of munitions used by the fascists against the NAF and civilians of the LDPR.

Kharkov is the city where “Barabashka” smuggling marketplace was set.
Just like Odessa’s “7th km” in the West

So, indeed, Kharkov was wishing non-escalation and peaceful co-existense, as it was ensuring the semi-legal trade routes they lived off.

Also we can remember fierce protects of March 2014 weekends there.
Sadly, they went for good. Both Semenchenko of junta and Motorola were spotted there those days, but soon left, probably because they saw no good prospects to organize any real fighters from Kharkov.

Since then Kharkov is the primary area for tanks and other armored vehicles production and repairs. Kharkov Tank Plant is maybehalf of all ATO gang war resources.

Sad to say it, but while some Kharkov citizens might be described vaguely as kind of russians, the majority are not. Same for other towns in Ukraine.

Uncle bob, don’t rejoice so soon. This looks like a more likely reason for the false flag. ….I.e. permission for NATO lunatics to now move into Donbass under the pretext of “humanitarian demining”. They will then situate all kinds of anti-Russia missiles and arm the takfiri minded ukronazi’s with all sorts of weapons. I really disappointed with porky, he’s a shame. At this point FSB should be on high alert.

The scenario also exists that given the failure of the Ukie forces to recently break through the Donbass lines, the US/NATO “advisers” have decided to detonate/eliminate this cache of weapons as preliminary preparations for US/NATO to withdraw ground forces from Ukraine as the chaos increases.

The additional 200 Canadian troops don’t seem to have helped the Ukie forces rebuild or advance, so why are they there? Demolition duty? Eliminating any people who “know too much”… Porky may want to run to Russia very soon.

This demolition serves multiple potential purposes for elimination of these munitions/equipment:
1) deny the disintegrating Porky-junta as the EU/IMF funding is withdrawn
2) deny the out-of-control neo-Nazi “militias” these weapons for their attacks/blockades.
3) deny the Donbass/Lugansk Republic forces if the Ukie/nazi front collapses and the border moves to include all of Donbass (or more?)

Oddly the US/NATO/Zionist MSM don’t seem to be reporting it much, so that adds an interesting “non-spin”…

Well, it seems one of the shacks, aka bunkers where all kinds of heavy-duty ammunition is stored, is spreading all kinds of heavy-duty ammunition to the surrounding villages, countryside.

And to the other shacks, aka bunkers of the gigantic munition depot – 368 hectares with 138,000 tons of ammonition – who for their part might start doing the same (?) to the surrounding villages. countyside.
Anyway, no one would want to be anywhere near it, one can only wait until the dangerous noise stops.

That first video is unbelievable! So the loss won’t affect the war effort? How much of such munitions do they have in storage? Surely taking a big toll on the town. True cause probably won’t be made public so remain open for speculation.

Another version is that the fire was started to cover for the stolen (and sold) missiles and munitions. Fire desroyed them, isn’t it? Besides, the USA just decided all of a suden to perform an inspection of the military depos in Ukraine, hence the fire.

The reaction of the news anchor is classic. Thanks to the pictures Scott posted of the highly secure and careful manner of storage of the munitions it is probably a safe bet that incompetence and the inevitable associated accident is the likely cause. “laser from space” ha ha, too funny and so so tragic for all those residents.

listening to the news and viewing tv, the british accented narrator from channel 4 notes the long arms of putin and the activity of russian separatists within the first 10 seconds of the broadcast accompanied by explosions and pyrotechnics.
And no evidence or the presence of either.

Why is ukraine stockpiling munitions and how were they manufactured , considering the country is all but bankrupt?
Maybe this was a NATO stockpile?

The storage conditions were close to absurd. Equipment was unmaintained. Flat tires stayed that way. It seems this was a “clearance” sale or accident. The question is will this cover a grand larceny in the near future from the created chaos, or is it covering up for a prior crime?

Munitions completely useless because of criminal negligence/lack of funding so what to do? No funds to dispose of this hazardous material, but if an accident occurs you can go cry to NATO, maybe get some brand new munitions that might actually work…

One thing the images strongly suggest is that there is no way there were 138,000 tons of munitions in that place. No way. Where are those 138,000 tons? Probably long gone as the place gradually became a looting ground for all kinds of characters. Blowing up whatever remained makes a lot of sense. Nobody will be held accountable. Plain Ukrainians must wonder everyday what their sin was to desereve such continuous punishment from above.

The sin of Ukrainians was the same as the sin of the USA, Israel and the EU as well as The Five Eyes: complacency and indifference to corruption and evil.
They are all seeing their future when they look at the former The Ukraine.

I had read elsewhere, before this happened, that the Ukie ultranationalists were planning an incident near the Russian border to which Porky would respond by calling for the assistance of NATO troops to stabilise the country and, I suppose, save his rear end from the alternative: another coup. Could this be that gambit? And what will (should) Russia do if NATO troops now, in fact, do come flooding into the country? Just allow Ukraine to become a de facto NATO member based on yet another violent insult to every thinking person’s intelligence? Or, will Putin finally decide to send in his army to bring much needed order and sanity to the madhouse that is Ukraine? Will NATO and Russian troops actually engage each other in combat when they inevitably meet in such a scenario? Does Trump want this? (I know the American Deep State does.) And, is he so weakened by internal politics that he will allow it to happen even if he considers it a major mistake? He and Putin had better make up their minds about what comes next fairly soon. If NATO is allowed to occupy Ukraine, even if Russia avoids confronting them somewhere in Novorussiya, they will eventually be fighting them in Crimea… to the bitter end, I’m afraid.

If NATO could take over the Donbass, they would have done so long ago. Let’s say Porky brings in a few NATO troops into Kharkov. Then what is the gain? What would they do? There are already many NATO “instructors” in Ukraine, they don’t need a disastrous pretext such as this one to bring them in if they wanted. And who said that Putin is weakened by internal politics?

Since we are talking about “fires”. I want to post a article with a video from RT. There are two videos in the article. The important one is the first one,very small and short. One of the “best” qualities of the Russian people to my thinking,is their willingness to help each other.I believe it could be considered a real “Russian value” as opposed to the fake “European values” we hear so much about.The men in this video,at the risk of their lives. Rescued a schoolboy when his screaming mother begged for someone to save him.Some would say it was foolish to try to aid someone like that. But to me it is the “height” of honor,and common humanity:

How about this? Nifty mafia entrepreneurs – always in need for some pocket change – sold off very slowly and very quietly the most valuable fire crackers to pyromaniacs currently active in Syria. When they saw, that all first grade stuff had been shelved out, they called it a day, and lit up the half empty munitions depot. After all, accidents do happen.

“Why not”? you ask.
Because all accusations against Russia in such dirty deeds quickly prove groundless.
From Olympic doping (The US doped far more and had no evidence) to Russian invasions of The Ukraine (all 138 of them!) to the shoot-down of MH-17 (The Ukraine and Holland did it and ran the ‘investigation’), to the DNC hack (actually an internal leak), to the installation of Donald Trump as President (simply extravagant bullshit).
That is “why not”.

Haha, so the Psheks don’t approve of their anti-Russian brethren? How sad — I mean, imagine what a prodigious screamfest they could have staged together with the Psheks yelling “Katyn” and the Ukros “Holodomor” till their faces were turning blue. As usual, the Psheks prove themselves worthy of even the basest Polish jokes.

Arsenals are usually designed to minimize the spread of fire, using berms and blast walls, so I thought tyhis might have been some excellent work by the local partisans. However, it looks like it is down to monkey-with-hand-grenade aka smoking inside an arsenal.

This arsenal contained 138,000 tons of munitions. About 1/3 to 1/2 has gone up in smoke, which is good news – apart from the 20,000 locals in the immediate vicinity. The last arsenal explosion in Ukraine at Lozova involved only 90 tons of munitions. Clearing up started in 2008 and still continues.The cleanup cost nearly 80 million old rate hryvnia. This explosion is on the Chernobyl scale.

Folks, don’t get your hopes up with this massive loss of ordinance, there’s plenty more floating around. Here’s what is supposedly a list of what was there and is now possibly lost. I can not vouch for the veracity of this list but the source is generally reliable.

– 75% of the tank ammo of various types and calibers.
– all missiles of the systems “Tochka-U”, “Smerch”, “Hurricane”.
– 80% of rockets for MLRS “Grad”
– 90% of ammo for the “Peony”, (203mm).
– 75% of the ammo for “Msta-C”, “Acacia”, and Hyacinth (152mm).
– 100% of the ammo for “Carnation” (122mm).

Vast amounts of ordinance have been moved to this lager since the start of the war from all over Uke. This depot was the closest major depot to the fighting in Novorossiya so the loss is major. However, rumor has it that trains are being loaded in Poland, former DDR and other places in former Warsaw Pact and will be heading east. This war ain’t over by a long shot.

Hi there.
You might have overlooked my reply to one of your posts the other day.

“Hi there.

Might not be the appropriate response to your post, But, I have decided to go to/visit Crimea this year, and might actually bring along/incite quite a few people from a few countries, including Russia.

We need, however, all the practical advice’s we can get from you (or anybody reading this from wherever), in order to maximize our experiences/expanding our knowledge etc..All within one week stay, (which off course is quite insufficient, but should be enough for a gist).

I have invited The Saker to join, with a stop-over in Moscow. Unfortunately, and for private, and very honorable reasons he can’t do that.

Who is in?

P.S. I stopped flying on commercial airlines a few years back, (as a matter of principle), when they introduced scanners etc. etc. etc., unless I was the pilot.

I will make an exception for Crimea though.

Now my Pilot license has expired, so legally I can’t fly!! (can still ride a bicycle and drive a car (any car)

I didn’t know I was running a travel service. Where are you coming from and what do you want to do? To start with if you are coming from EU/nato, US, Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea you will have to fly to Moscow and from there down to Simferopol. If you have never been to Russia you will find a different world here, not unpleasant, but different.

What ‘experience’ are you seeking? As an aside if you had bothered to open the links I usually put with my signature you will find some interesting information concerning your request.

Moscow to Simferopol is better option and aerodrome in Sim is quite good and modern, that way you don’t have to fool with the ferry across the Kerch Straights. Best time to come is mid to late April before the thundering mob from the mainland arrives to make out lives interesting. Weather is good but not the parching heat of High Summer.

We have friends in Yalta who have good accommodations, they are a Canadian couple much younger that we are. If you bring this to fruition I can put you in contact with them. From Yalta you can get to most anywhere, Sevastopol, Foros, Feodosya, Yevpatoria, without driving too long.

We are fine and dogs are good, too,except for the patriarch. Old Melik is just that, very old, and slowly fading. I expect this spring to be his last.

Dear Heimatloser Auslaender who has found his Motherland/thanks God ! Thank you so much for the exacting information and good news . Suspect Batman got a bit out of there long time ago. Please greet my Krim ; been there as a school boy 1967. Must come home too,
Stefan

organized fubars (like blown ammo dumps or magic collapsing steel highrise buildings) always have more than one benefiting party by design so that the cui bono deductive logic points at more than one party. Ideally one design for many benefiting parties.

however, in the fullness of time the patterns of the several parties reveals the actual guilt individual agent or actor.

if job in question was tactical it looks pretty wet. smells like false flag that covers (1) theft, and (2) prevents access to remaining material, and (3) invites nato – and (4) also implies benefit to antifascist force by removing some ordnance from hand of the nazi forces, thus laying red herring trail for servile lapdog media to work with.

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